@LieutenantFatman@TheBrandedSwordsman I watched the whole of the old X-Men series again about 6-10 years ago. I think what surprised me about it was how modern it felt. If I remember correctly it was completely serialised instead of episodic and had like full season story arcs. Reminded me much more of things like Lost.
Spiderman had multi episode arcs but seemed more episodic overall. Even though I preferred that show as a kid, having watched both again as an adult, I now much prefer X-Men. I highly rate Spiderman Unlimited as well despite its brevity and cliffhanger ending
@ralphdibny I've seen clips of X-Men and remember scrunching my nose at the score. Was quite gnarly! 😆
@LieutenantFatman Used to watch the original He-Man when I was a kid. That and Transformers were my favourite and had loads of the toys for both.
Seth Rogen is trying to reboot TNMT and be more like the original cartoons. Saw a bit of the more recent Nickelodeon series and that looked bloody awful!
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@JohnnyShoulder gnarly good or gnarly bad? I can't remember the score really apart from the awesome theme tune to be honest!
It can be a bit off putting when going back to old cartoons when the music is really loud. Turtles is a bit like that actually, every scene opens with that last bit of sound in the theme tune. (Could be misremembering that!)
I love the original turtles cartoon though, never really got into the reboots but I wouldn't mind giving that 2003 series a go one day. I quite liked the CGI film too (and obviously love the original two movies, not so much 3 😅).
I actually quite liked the latest two movies as well despite the flack they got. I think with the amount of reboots/redesigns by that point, not just of turtles but transformers, Spiderman etc. I'm just completely numb to it now and just enjoy things for what they are. The second of those two movies is actually intentionally similar to the cartoons already anyway with Krang, Rocksteady and Bebop being in it. Not sure what more Seth Rogan could do to with it really but I am still interested to see it, if it becomes a thing!
@JohnnyShoulder I actually was a big He-Man fan myself, I much preferred Hordak to Skeletor actually, and thought the movie where Skeletor used to be Hordak's apprentice, Sword in the Stone I think it was called, with She-Ra in it as well, was great, did you ever see that one? Also I didn't think the He-Man reboot in the early 2000s was too bad, apparently Hordak was set to become a major villain in the next series of the reboot, but ,unfortunately the show got cancelled before that notion could come to fruition. Great times with the original series though eh?
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@TheBrandedSwordsman Not too familiar with Hordak, but it was something like 30 years ago! I remember Man-E-Faces and Ram Man cos they had cool toys! But yeah that was the start of a golden age for kids cartoons for me.
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Turtles was my favourite as a young child. Both that and Masters of the Universe had the best villains. Skeletor and Shredder are just brilliant. I feel they really take the shows to the next level making them truly special. The voice acting certainly helped with that, so iconic.
Nice to see Mark Hamill taking over as Skeletor, will be interesting to see his take on the character.
@LieutenantFatman oh yeah, James Avery was Shredder! I almost think he's going to shout "Will!" when I'm watching turtles and likewise I always think Uncle Phil is going to shout "turtles!" when I'm watching fresh Prince 😅
@LieutenantFatman Did you ever watch any of the Real Ghostbusters cartoons when you were younger? I also watched Extreme Ghostbusters as an older child, and I loved the crossover RGB/EGB episode they did with the original RGB voice actors coming back and reprising their roles along with the actor who played Egon (who was there the whole time through both series).
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Anyone else here excited about Masters of the Universe Revelation? Can't wait to finish work tomorrow and go home and get stuck in. can't believe I'm 39 and getting excited about that world and it's characters all over again!
I probably won't get a chance to watch it till next week though, as I think I've just finished something else. Will be interesting to see if it still holds up to my 43 year old standards.
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